The idea of Cormac McCarthy writing an original screenplay for Ridley Scott with silly-haired Javier Bardem and elaborate motorcycle beheadings inspired so many TAKE MY MONEY reactions that The Counselor was destined to be doomed by high expectations.

Despite all of the rumored production problems that Brad Pitt denied and the fact that the movie had nothing in common with the best-selling book except for the title and zombies, World War Z is still a massive global success and Pitt’s highest-grossing movie of all-time.

Brad Pitt is currently in England filming Fury, which is the story of some American soldiers who embark on an against-all-odds mission at the end of World War II that doesn’t make me experience déjà vu at all, and he took a little break last Friday to grab a drink at the hotel bar.

When all is said and done for movies in 2013, and the Academy has handed out every last gold-covered chocolate statue for the Best Picture and Best Actor and everyone has clapped the loudest for German actor Dieter Pfaff during the In Memoriam segment, perhaps the biggest achievement of this year will have been the box office success of World War Z.